If you’ve been following the continuing 1960s story of John Keel’s proxy association with supposed aliens, you will find this anguished, challenging, and ultimately not mailed, letter a revealing summary of Keel’s mental state. He is suspicious and frightened of the “aliens,, despondent about humanity, and feels trapped by this “dark game.” Most especially, he […]

Back to the UFO soap opera. John seems to have made enough sense of the whirlpool of unreality surrounding him to write a letter to Jim Moseley, outlining his suspicions about being “framed” so that his important discoveries will be discounted. He warns that Jim’s “stupid little friend, Gladys, has unwittingly gotten herself involved.” Well, […]

It’s July 17, 1967, and as site minder Doug Skinner notes regarding John Keel, things are “obviously getting to him.” He’s carefully following the Pope Paul VI Turkish excursion, in light of an assassination prediction from the Visitors; he’s getting warnings about his own life; he’s certain that his phone is being monitored; and he’s […]

John Keel couldn’t get a break back in the 1960s. He’s got the “beings” Apol and Agar and bothering him, Jaye Paro and the local contactees filling his head with all sorts of nonsense, “Princess Moon Owl” of whatever background in the mix, and, last but not least, other humans trying to test his credulity […]

“Is J.P. Paro a conspirator trying to drive me nuts?” asks John Keel, as his weird and wonderful odyssey with the contactees continues. Much of the strange tale Keel tells revolves around a “confidence test” supposedly administered to Ms. Paro by the shadowy Apol and Agar. Keel recognizes such stock folkloric or even conspiracy elements […]